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cn coin 6458

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CN Type 5253 🔍

Mint
Abdera 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Typology

Date

c. 450-425 BC

Classical Period 🔍

Obverse
Legend
Legend obverse ΚΑ-Λ-ΛΙΔ-ΑΜΑΣ
Design
Griffin seated left on tunny, left, right forepaw raised, with palmette-like upwards curved wings, tail curling and open beak with tongue protruding.
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Reverse
Legend
Legend reverse ΑΒΔ-ΗΡ-ΙΤΕ-ΩΝ
Design
Quadripartite and raised linear square; all within incuse square.
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Persons

Magistrate: Kallidamas 🔍  

Metrology
Denomination
Stater (tetradrachm) 🔍  
Standard: reduced Chian
Material
silver 🔍  
Diameter
26 mm
Weight
14.90 g
Axis
3
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18241662

Provenience: 1873 Fox - Vorbesitzer Borrell

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen I: Taurische Chersonesus, Sarmatien, Dacien, Pannonien, Moesien, Thracien, thracische Könige, Berlin 1888 p. 102, nr. 39  ❐

Friedländer and Sallet, Das Königliche Münzkabinet: Geschichte und Übersicht der Sammlung nebst erklärender Beschreibung der auf Schautischen ausgelegten Auswahl, Berlin 1878 nr. 295  ❐

Strack and Münzer, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands. 2. Die Münzen der Thraker und der Städte Abdera, Ainos, Anchialos 1. Halbbd., Berlin 1912 p. 59, nr. 61,4  ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 130, nr. 150a, pl. 9  ❐

Literature

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-117 ❐

May, The Coinage of Abdera: (540-345 B. C.), London 1966 p. 127-130, nr. 142-150 (c. 473/470-449/448 BC.)  ❐

Chryssanthaki-Nagle, L'histoire monétaire d'Abdère en Thrace: (VIe s. avant J.-C. - IIe s. après J.-C.), Athen 2007 p. 111-119 ❐

Psoma, Did the So-called Thraco-Macedonian Standard Exist?, 2015 p. 179-182 ❐

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cn coin 6458, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6458 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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